The Lamps of Terrahead may be a weird name for an album, but Glaswegian post-prog-indie outfit El Dog’s debut is a great piece of work nonetheless.

Fresh out of Fife, Candythief set forth for some folk-pop-jazz adventures in their very own Technicolour Wilderness. Good listening, though not very exciting.

Having called their new EP Drinking Den, Edinburgh folk-rockers Rieser must be fond of pubs. Which is lucky, because they’ll be playing in them a fair bit.

Despite the exotic name, Brigada Mercy are a Yorkshire-based folk-punk band, and “Roto Chico” is their first quick snatch for the Levellers’ rusting crown.

Old goth bands never die… but on the strength of live retrospective album Live & Last, The Mission should have left the lid on their patchouli-scented coffin.

The Walkmen’s latest single “The Blue Route” utterly fails to impress with its plodding rhythms and New Yorican whining.

Broken Records belie their band name with two tracks of blissfully melancholic indie-folk on new single “Lies”.

The Walkmen just walked back into town with You & Me – a suitcase full of hauntingly nonchalant Dylanesque indie-jangle Americana.

New York post-folkers O’Death have, with excellent timing, penned the ideal soundtrack to the Next Great Depression in the form of Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin.

Wade McNeil takes time off from Alexisonfire to put together Black Lungs and, in the form of Send Flowers, produces one of the most authentic and honest punk albums in years.